Artifacts on the Road

A gallery of traveling air- and spacecraft loaned out by the Smithsonian.

  • By Heather Goss
  • AirSpaceMag.com, September 18, 2012
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Fairchild FC-2W2

In 1929, Admiral Richard Byrd made the first flight over the South Pole. Though he was flying a Ford Tri-Motor, he had quite the entourage to help him document the trip. Among them was the Stars and Stripes, a Fairchild FC-2W2, from which a crew documented the journey and the Antarctic terrain below. The expedition airplane is now at the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond.


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